Sentence examples for downheartedness from inspiring English sources

Yet even here we may detect a shade of Ingmar Bergman, another sign that through that decade, European existential downheartedness would win out over American gusto.

This spring's blighted crop of dystopian novels is pessimistic about technology, about the economy, about politics, and about the planet, making it a more abundant harvest of unhappiness than most other heydays of downheartedness.

Ms. Braden communicates downheartedness and just plain heartbreak, but she's at her best when Bessie is showy and sassy, shimmying as a dare to the world to try to stop her.